GERARDE AND JOHNSON.

The Herball or Generall Histoire of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Churgurie very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson Citizen and Apothacarye of London.

      London, Printed by Adam Islip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers 1636 - Folio [size: 9 x 13.5 inches], pagination: [38], 1630, [1], [46, indices], bound without the initial blank leaf as usuaul, with fine engraved title page, circa 220 wood-engravings of plants in text. Bound in near contemporary calf, sometime rebacked in morocco, spine with raised bands, an old label preserved, later endpapers with cloth hinge. Binding is slightly worn at corners but very strong and sound. Internally, with corner tear to title page with slight loss of engraved image, light waterstains to first 40 or so pages, mainly prelims, else generally very clean and sound throughout. A very few clean marginal tears without loss of text, slight wear to lower corners of first and last few leaves, but generally a very good sound copy, THIRD EDITION, and textually the best, of this most famous of all Elizabethan herbals, a good complete copy, a greatly enlarged version of the 1597 edition, compiled by Gerarde alone, with many new wood-engravings in this editon, with the valuable additions of Thomas Johnson. The best possible survey of the English herb garden from this period, with the medicinal properties of each plant set down in authoritative manner by two eminent English apothecaries. [Attributes: Hard Cover]